General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 6515
January Session, 2013 *_____HB06515PRIGAE031513____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 6515
January Session, 2013
*_____HB06515PRIGAE031513____*
AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE FOR MAXIMIZING ALTERNATIVE REVENUE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) There is established an Office for Maximizing Alternative Revenue which shall be within the Office of Policy and Management and shall assist state agencies in identifying, applying for and administering alternative and federal revenue. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall designate a current employee to serve as, or appoint, an executive director to administer the Office for Maximizing Alternative Revenue.
(b) The Office for Maximizing Alternative Revenue, within available resources, shall:
(1) Develop a high-level system to track the state's federal and alternative grant funding;
(2) Work in consultation with other state agencies to pursue specific federal revenue maximization efforts;
(3) Provide technical assistance to state agencies regarding identification, application and administration of grants by providing training and, when deemed appropriate by the executive director, contracting with a nonstate entity to provide such training;
(4) Develop and disseminate electronically the best practices for seeking federal grants and facilitate the implementation of such best practices by state agencies; and
(5) Serve as the state's key federal grant contact with the Governor's office and the state's Congressional delegation and their staff.
(c) The executive director may enter into contractual agreements as may be necessary to fulfill his or her duties under this section, provided the executive director shall not have the power to appoint employees. Subject to the provisions of section 4-32 of the general statutes and chapter 10 of the general statutes, the executive director may receive any money, revenue or services from the federal government, corporations, associations or individuals.
(d) Each state agency shall designate an employee to serve as the liaison with the office regarding federal and alternative funding. Each such liaison shall ensure that the office has access to information regarding all grant applications that have been submitted by such state agency that the office requires to maintain the tracking system developed by the office.
(e) Not later than July 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the executive director shall post on the office's Internet web site the results of the tracking system for federal and alternative grant funding that the office has developed. Such results shall identify where opportunities exist for state agencies to pursue federal and alternative funding.
(f) Not later than January 1, 2014, and quarterly thereafter, the executive director shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies on the office's efforts to maximize alternative revenues, and once the tracking system is developed, on the results of such tracking system.
(g) For purposes of this section "state agency" has the same meaning as provided in section 4-37e of the general statutes and the executive director shall not be considered a department head, as defined in section 4-5 of the general statutes.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
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